It was a lucky find. These appointments are hard to find, our province is doing second shots for 10 year olds at an 8 week interval, my public health unit won’t shorten to three weeks which is ‘permitted with informed consent,’ and the pharmacies which will shorten the interval are booked solid.
Someone must have cancelled. His original public health appointment is Jan 20 but our kids are at the moment scheduled to return to the school building on Jan 17. I desperately wanted that second jab in him before school resumed. Ideally two weeks before, but this is at least one week.
The number testing positive is almost 3.5% of the population of my city, and that does not include unreported home tests or Those who didn’t get tested for whatever reason
A few weeks ago MI daily numbers were around 6500. A couple weeks ago they were around 9500. A week ago they were around 12,000. Today they are around 20,000.
My awe at the medical community - research and patient side both - just continues to grow. In 2 years, we have rapid PCR and antigen tests; we have multiple highly effective vaccines; and we have multiple treatments which help severely ill patients. Like. Holy fuck well done. This virus still blows but wow we are much better equipped now.
Thinking about this, I’m not surprised. I think a lot of people are waiting to get PCR tests until they get positive home tests. And I know some places have already switched to only allowing PCR for symptomatic people. If your Health department is only collecting PCR data and not reporting home data, then you’ll end up with an incredibly high rate of PCR positives.
There is no gatekeeping on PCR’s here. I am curious though if they track self-reported home tests or not. Certainly there are many people that simply won’t report. I definitely don’t report my negative home tests. I do wonder if there is double counting if someone has more than one positive over the tracked week. Or even if someone has more than one negative. There were times that I was tested at the health department affiliated site more than once in a week. Data is fascinating, eh?
ETA I actually read that wrong. You were saying people might be waiting to get the PCR only if they have the positive at home. That’s funny to me because I keep hearing if someone is symptomatic and positive at home there is no need to confirm it with a PCR whereas earlier there was more encouragement to confirm with a PCR. The people that I know that were positive recently (symptomatic) who had a positive home test did not confirm with a PCR. The people who did have a positive PCR are the ones that had a negative on the home test but were still sick so tested again.
The free tests that I have gotten from the state government come with an expectation that you will report the results on a website, but (a) I had forgotten and they still sent me more and (b) when I did go to report the results of the second batch, the website was AWFUL. I had to scroll month by month back to 1981 to enter my birthday. Then 1985 for the Boy and even 2012 (for LB) is a looooot of months!
While I agree with your sentiment, I would warn that Florida’s been doing some shady things with how deaths are reported leading to it always looking like deaths are going down. Deaths are being reported for the day on which they happened, not the day that they were registered so we get a ton of backfill as weeks go on due to the lag between a death and it being recorded.
A guy my DIL works with had a bad reaction to his second vaccine dose and half his face is frozen. His one eye won’t close. He is the only person we know that had a negative impact. Hopefully it’s temporary.
Bell’s palsy is pretty common, and luckily almost always resolves in cases like this. A friend had Bell’s palsy at the end of pregnancy, too. Facial nerves are… irritable.
If it was permanent, it was probably caused by a stroke. I think we technically call that facial paralysis something other than Bell’s palsy, but I can’t remember what exactly (maybe just “facial paralysis secondary to ischemic stroke” ) I think it might be part of the definition of Bell’s palsy that it’s transient? I need to go re-up my stroke eval credentials, clearly. I’m drawing too many blanks.
) I think it might be part of the definition of Bell’s palsy that it’s transient? I need to go re-up my stroke eval credentials, clearly. I’m drawing too many blanks.